Actual Return

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Actual Return

The return or yield on an investment or portfolio, as opposed to an estimation of the same. Before making an investment, one generally calculates the expected return, which is an important aspect of an investment's risk analysis. The actual return is what objectively happened to the investment. In addition to contributing to an investor'sprofit or loss on a given deal, the actual return may be measured against the expected return to determine the accuracy of risk analysis methodologies.

In fact, it was only a month before Ali Cogia's actual return that the affair came into his head at all, owing to his wife's remarking one day, that it was a long time since she had eaten any olives, and would like some.

Later in the presentation Sheikh Al Kattan discussed various issues relating to Wakala and answered participants' questions on convertible Wakala (convertible into shares), termination of Wakala before maturity, overdraft product structure based on Investment Wakala contract and market practice of Islamic banks compensating for the difference between expected and actual returns.

These will either give a fixed rate of income or capital growth over a specific term and are usually reliant on the performance of an index (such as the FTSE 100) in determining the For actual returns.

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